08-09-2009, 11:01 AM | #1 |
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mobileread.com - 5 years ago
Think back to five years ago today. The date was December 31st, 2004
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Er, 5 years ago today was most certainly not 31st December 2004.
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Quote from December 31, 2004: "I did some tweaks to our RSS feeds to reduce the server strain. If you experience any weird changes or bugs, please be so kind and inform us!"
LOL!!! Good ol'times. |
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08-09-2009, 03:00 PM | #7 |
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Wasn't the site called "turcic.com" back then?
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08-09-2009, 03:13 PM | #8 |
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Wow, I had no idea this site has been around that long. I love archive.org...I often look up some of my old sites and laugh!
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08-09-2009, 05:30 PM | #9 |
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Things have changed quite a lot in five years.
Its was all PDA,PDA,PDA back then and not a drop of e-ink to go around I didn't realise mobipocket store and fictionwise were full into the selling of ebooks back then. |
08-09-2009, 05:36 PM | #10 |
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Wow, I was reading on an iPaq back then and thought it was cool technology.
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08-09-2009, 06:10 PM | #11 |
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In 2004, I had heard of eBooks and had downloaded a couple from PG and Baen. I even had Mobipocket Reader and Rocket Reader installed on my computer, but found that I was not interested in reading on the computer monitor, so I just stuck with paper books. I never had a PDA, so didn't even know that book-reading software existed for it. Once the Kindle came out, I was hooked.
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08-09-2009, 06:33 PM | #12 |
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2004... That was also the last year of major new PDA release with the release of the Hx4700, the X50V & the Loox 720. Since then the market totally switched to smartphones. Luckily for us the e-ink devices started to become mainstream soon thereafter.
I was reading on a Toshiba e800 back then. |
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Imagine mobileread 5 years from now. Prediction: it will be HUGE.
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I have ebooks that I bought from Fictionwise in Jan 2003, and I'm pretty sure they'd been around for at least a year or two before that.
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